Enigma is pleased to announce that for the second consecutive year it has been named to Supply Chain and Demand Executive magazine's Top 100 list. The magazine will feature the sixth-annual listing of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 in its June/July 2007 issue, as well as online at www.SDCExec.com.

"Our readers turn to Supply & Demand Chain Executive to learn about new solutions and best practices for enabling the supply chain, to understand trends in supply chain technology, and to benchmark their own companies' enablement initiatives with those of other enterprises across industry verticals," explained Andrew K. Reese, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive.

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For airlines and MRO shops, the generation of job cards is usually a manual task that involves searching for data in multiple systems, sorting the information, then copying and pasting it into the proper job card format. This process is both time-consuming and error prone, which slows down the maintenance and repair of aircraft and engines.

If your organization still produces job cards the old-fashioned way—by copying and pasting information from different systems—then tune into our next webinar, "Automating Job Card Generation." 

Learn how the Enigma InService Job Card Generator streamlines and automates that process.

Presented by: 
Susan Glass, Sales Solution Manager, Enigma
John Snow, VP of Business Development and Marketing, Enigma

When:
Wednesday, July 25
10:00am eastern time

Register for this webinar to find out how the Enigma InService Job Card Generator solution enables airlines and MROs to reduce maintenance errors and save thousands of hours of manual labor by automating job card creation.

Enigma is excited to learn that Aviation Week is sponsoring a forum that focuses on the important topic of Lean and Six-Sigma (LSS) initiatives in aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO). For the past three years Enigma has been highlighting the value of LSS for aftermarket services with our customers, partners and analysts. To learn that a major magazine in the aerospace industry has also recognized the opportunity for improved MRO processes is extremely encouraging. However, Enigma believes that the opportunity to improve the efficiency and consistency of aftermarket services extends beyond airlines and can be applied to any industry that relies on complex equipment.
 
In essence, LSS objectives are at the heart of what Enigma's software is designed to do. By automating the delivery of critical maintenance and parts information, Enigma eliminates the current bottleneck associated with locating and compiling a complete set of relevant information for each piece of equipment and each service procedure. This allows technicians to spend more time fixing equipment and less time looking for data, which improves mean time to repair (MTTR). Furthermore, by providing a complete maintenance encyclopedia that integrates to back-office systems together with a rich set of collaboration tools, Enigma allows service to be executed more consistently and with less variation in maintenance turn times. This gives service planners greater predictability in service execution, increasing flexibility in workforce scheduling and reducing maintenance queues.
 
Lean and Six-Sigma, as a source of greater profits in aftermarket maintenance, has been overlooked for too long. Considering the size of most service organizations and the growing complexity of modern equipment, Enigma and LSS provide a competitive advantage to forward thinking companies. We look forward to a growing dialog on this important topic.